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100 Youth Ministry Gems
Three veteran youth ministers share their best seasoned advice.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=260&art_id=102
Managing Volunteers: Evaluation
For ongoing development of your small group leaders, evaluation is invaluable. Here's how.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=230&art_id=87
Service and Acts of Kindness: No Strings Attached
Many ministries are doing acts of kindness with no strings attached, and seeing the unchurched embrace Christ as a result.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=210&art_id=158
Building Ministry in Your Cultural Context
Cookie-cutter ministry formulas don't work in every cultural context. Dave Livermore helps us to adapt our ministry strategy to each context, including the Word, Worship, Community and Serving.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=200&art_id=62
Forgiveness: The Power That Heals
If students could learn to forgive others from the heart, they would not resort to violence to even up the score. Innes' article presents a much-needed exhortation to forgive. Youth workers could use this article as a basis for a message to their students on the topic.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=190&art_id=54
Preventing School Violence (Bible Study)
This lesson plan/article shows that the characteristics in students' lives that put them at risk for school violence were addressed by the Bible thousands of years ago. We can have a part in preventing school violence by promoting Christian character and helping youth model it for their peers.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=190&art_id=53
Teen Violence: Taming Your Anger
When students can't manage their anger, violence can become a way of channeling that anger. This article gives biblical ways to tame anger.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=190&art_id=56
Youth Ministry Rooms: Ten Tips to Spice Them Up
Dr. Al Millergren and Paul Evans give hints for making your youth ministry room more inviting for teens.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=180&art_id=50
Do You Really Want Your Child to Be Like Jesus?
Norman Wright made me refine my goals and motives in childrearing. While we say we want our children to be like Jesus, deep inside most of us really want our children to fit in, to be liked, to be accepted by their peers and acceptable to my peers. Jesus wasn't always like that.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=170&art_id=52
Love Your Kids: Make Deposits in the Love Bank (Part 2)
Parenting Teens. In this second part, Barry and Carol St. Clair lay out intensely practical ways to love your teens by learning to communicate with them.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=170&art_id=46